Opportunities
Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along. ~Hugh Allen When I look back now over my life…
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Nurses
Nurses are angels in comfortable shoes. ~Author Unknown Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ~Dag Hammarskjold Nurses are…
Nostalgia
We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. ~George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860 Nostalgia is like a grammar…
Night
Nighttime is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. ~Catherine O'Hara There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining…
Needlework
Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their…
Nature
How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880 I only went out for a walk and finally concluded…
Names
Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. ~W.H. Auden Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. ~Thomas C. Haliburton…
Music
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach All deep…
Motorcycles
That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Most motorcycle problems are caused by the…
Mothers
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan Being a full-time…